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Article: Designer Manolo Blahnik is the high priest of sexy shoes.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- March 14, 1996
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PHILADELPHIA _ The princely young male model offers up the shoes on a silver platter like Cinderella's slippers, and few can resist exclaiming over them.
Even among the best that Neiman Marcus' ladies shoe salon can offer, this footwear is extraordinary.
Pure fantasy.
Picture special-order pink silk embroidered in green, glittering with Austrian crystals atop slender heels.
Picture a little old lady in a factory in Italy, a magnifying lens screwed into her eye, painstakingly stitching each crystal onto the shoes by hand.
Picture a $2,400 price tag.
They are by Manolo Blahnik, of course. The high priest of sexy shoes. The man who ...